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has gloss | eng: The Losada Line, also known as the "Losada ratio," was found by psychologist Marcial Losada while researching the differences in positivity/negativity between high and low performance teams (Losada, 1999, 2004). The Losada Line has a positivity/negativity ratio of 2.9013 and it represents the lower bound of the Losada Zone. It was corroborated by Barbara Fredrickson, a psychologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in individuals and by Waugh and Fredrickson in relationships (Waugh & Fredrickson, 2006). They found that the Losada line separates people who are able to reach a complex understanding of others from those who do not. People who "flourish" are above the Losada Line, and those who "languish" are below it (Fredrickson & Losada, 2005; Fredrickson, 2009). The Losada Line bifurcates the type of dynamics that are possible for an interactive human system. Below it, we find limiting dynamics represented by fixed-point attractors; at or above it, we find innovative dynamics represented by complex order attractors (complexor). |
lexicalization | eng: Losada line |
instance of | c/Group processes |
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